A great week-end of basketball for me because I don’t waste my time watching Sam Presti’s team beyond maybe 6-8 minutes whenever they take the floor nowadays.
Eight healthy young players now sitting every game…including former Rookie of the Year candidate Josh Giddey.
Two words…commercial fraud. The only ones still left standing are the Presti zombies at the Daily Thunder…who apparently don’t have anything else in their lives left to talk about.
I’ll need to see what 405Baller’s state of mind is after last night’s putrid 116-103 home loss to the Utah Jazz.
I’m good though. I was prepared for this.
OU won a clutch 78-71 game at Kansas State which I ‘think’ has them back in the Tournament. I haven’t looked at Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology list yet, but I would think with OU’s elite difficulty of schedule they should be around in a No. 43 net ranking position. This would equate into a No. 11 seed in the Tournament.
First round games are 11’s vs. 6’s and this OU team will be more than capable of beating any 6th seed in the field. In fact, it will be a relief to only have to play a 5th or 6th seed in the Tournament’s first round.
Kudos to Coach Moser’s group for not giving up and winning their last three games of the Big 12 regular season. They showed some real grit overcoming the EJ Harkless injury.
I sit here thinking of Coach Moser and then think of the little G League coach with Buster Brown haircut Sam Presti has in place. It amuses me. I find it very amusing.
As far as the Thunder…it is appalling to witness what Sam Presti is doing at this point.
I genuinely feel for people who were foolish enough to pay for season tickets this season.
Eight healthy young players sit games now as Presti attempts to capture a top spot in this summer’s NBA draft. The sad irony though is even if Presti wins the top spot…he’ll probably pass on Jabari Smith and take the project kid from Gonzaga. Which would mean Chet, like Poku, would take another three years to turn into an NBA player.
By the time that occurs…SGA’s NBA-Slavery clause will have expired in Oklahoma City and he would be free to move onto a real NBA city like Toronto or LA.
Maybe that’s Presti’s plan by drafting all these white guys with his first-round picks. Maybe the plan is to insulate the roster from elite black player exits after four years in Oklahoma City.
Which could be flawed you know because of the Pao Gasol Doctrine.
But with March Madness almost upon us and the NBA’s better teams giving us some great games every night, for real basketball fans, all of this Thunder tanking will not matter in the end.
Milwaukee Bucks in town tomorrow night with Giannis, Jrue, Khris, and Bobby Portis. I’m there right behind the Milwaukee bench, but I don’t need to wear a brown sack over my head. Know what I mean?